Garment hanger



July 4, 1939- B. F. CLARK Er AL GARMENT HANGER Filed April 25, 1958 Patented July 4, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HANGER Application April 25, 1938, Serial No. 204,128

1 Claim.

The object of our invention is to provide a garment hanger of simple, durable and inexpensive construction especially adapted for use in connection with garment supporting rods or wires,

and more specifically it is our object to provide a hanger of this class which may be readily and easily attached to or detached from the rod or wire, and when attached the hanger will be frictionally secured to the rod or wire against accidental displacement thereon or removal therefrom,

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a garment hanger having our improved frictional holding device applied thereto and positioned upon a garment hanger supporting rod or wire;

Figure 2 shows a garment hanger supporting rod and a portion of our improved garment hanger applied thereto in the position in which the hanger is first placed in the act of attaching it to the supporting rod;

Figure 3 shows a side elevation of the same parts shown in Figure 1, taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawing we have used the reference numeral It to indicate a garment hanger of ordinary construction and provided with a stem II. At the upper portion of the stem is a hanger supporting hook which comprises the part I2 extended laterally outwardly away from the stem. This hook has a downwardly extended portion at its outer side, indicated at I 3, and an inwardly extended portion at its bottom, indicated at I4, and this part I 4 is spaced apart from the stem, as clearly shown in Figure 3. The said parts I2, I3 and I4 form said hook.

Fixed to the upper portion of this stem is a tensioning member. This comprises a spring wire loop I 5 extended upwardly from the hanger supporting hook and then laterally in a position substantially at right angles to the garment supporting hook and then downwardly. At the free end of the tensioning members we have formed the wire into a spiral forming substantially a complete circle. This spiral when thus formed forms a substantially U-shaped loop I6, open at its top, and beyond that a substantially U-shaped loop I'I, open at its bottom. The said parts I5, I6 and I! form said tensioning member.

The garment supporting rod or wire is indicated by the numeral I8,

When it is desired to apply our hanger to the garment supporting rod or wire, the operator holds the hanger in substantially the position shown in Figure 2, so that the U-shaped loop I6 receives the rod I8. Then the operator tilts the hanger to approximately the position shown in Figure 1 so that the U-shaped loop receives the supporting rod I8 from below. The size and shape of said tensioning member, including the loops 5 I6 and I1, is such that the loops I6 and H are in the position to receive the rod I8, as shown in Figure 2.

To complete the attaching movement the operator moves the hanger to position with the hanger 10 supporting hook above the rod I8, and then he moves the hanger supporting hook laterally toward the right, and then downwardly until the hook encircles the rod I8, as shown in Figure 3, and when in this position the tensioning member 15 yieldingly holds the supporting hook toward the left, as shown in Figure 3, and thereby frictionally binds the hanger to the supporting rod.

When it is desired to remove the hanger it is only necessary to grasp the hanger body and 20 move it to position toward the right, and then downwardly from the position shown in Figure 3, until it disengages from the rod I8, and after this has been done, the U-shaped hooks I6 and Il are easily released from the supporting wire. 25 Attention is directed to the fact that with our improvement the supporting rod or wire I8 may be a rigid wire that cannot bend, or it may be a flexible rope tightly stretched.

We claim as our invention: 30

A garment hanger having an upright supporting stem, a hanger supporting hook at the upper portion of the stem, extended laterally outwardly from the stem, then downwardly and then inwardly toward the stem to a point spaced apart 35 from the stem, and a tensioning member fixed to the upper portion of the stem and formed of spring material and having at its outer end a U-shaped loop open at its top, and beyond that a U-shaped loop open at its bottom, said loops be- 40 ing shaped to receive a garment supporting rod and normally hold the hanger in position with the hanger supporting hook below and laterally spaced from a garment supporting rod, and said tensioning member being of such resiliency that 45 an operator may easily move the hanger to position with the hanger supporting hook above the supporting rod, and then move the hanger laterally toward the supporting rod, and then when the hanger is released the tensioning member will 50 yieldingly press the hanger supporting hook downwardly and laterally to thereby move the hook to position for engaging the rod to thereby frictionally hold the hanger to a rod.

BERYL FLOYD CLARK. 55 VALLIE DON HUMBERT. 

